So, walking in awe, he became familiar with God, who resided chiefly in Drew Centennial Church with its high steeple and clock.

In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.

It was in Bologna that Dürer was taught ( possibly by Luca Pacioli or Bramante ) the principles of linear perspective, and evidently became familiar with the ' costruzione legittima ' in a written description of these principles found only, at this time, in the unpublished treatise of Piero della Francesca.

He was inspired by Chinese characters, with which he became familiar at Shanghai.

Eventually, the concept of numbers became concrete and familiar enough for counting to arise, at times with sing-song mnemonics to teach sequences to others.

Despite this, Thomas became a familiar radio voice and within Britain was " in every sense a celebrity ".

In Old French sources this then became Escalibor, Excalibor and finally the familiar Excalibur.

Jackie Mason, Bo Diddley, Buddy Holly, and The Doors became intimately familiar with Sullivan's negative side.

It was 15 years before the personal computer became familiar to the general public, and three decades before most people encountered attempts at natural language processing in Internet services like Ask. com or PC help systems such as Microsoft Office Clippy.

As Mountbatten became more familiar with this new form of weaponry, he increasingly grew opposed to its use in combat yet at the same time he realised the potential nuclear energy had, especially with regards to submarines.

She became familiar to a new generation of film-goers when she played Principal McGee in both 1978's Grease and 1982's Grease 2, as well as making appearances on such television shows as Alice, Maude and Falcon Crest.

The most familiar felid is the domestic cat, which first became associated with humans about 10, 000 years ago ; but the family includes all other wild cats, including the big cats.

The tribes became familiar with Roman tactics of warfare while maintaining their tribal identity.

During the second half of the 20th century, the sound of the harpsichord ( or perhaps rather more often, its electronically created equivalent ) became very familiar in popular culture, appearing frequently in popular music, television, films, computer games, and so on.

Though Chrétien ’ s account is the earliest and most influential of all Grail texts, it was in the work of Robert de Boron that the Grail truly became the " Holy Grail " and assumed the form most familiar to modern readers.

During these years overseas, Adams became fluent in French and Dutch and became familiar with German and other European languages.

When British women participated in World War I, they became familiar with masculine clothing, and were considered patriotic for wearing uniforms and pants.

Some scholars have theorized that Smith became familiar with the name " Moroni " through his study of the treasure-hunting stories of Captain William Kidd.

Because of this, a certain acting style became required that is more familiar to modern audiences.

As programming terminals evolved, it became more common for ladder logic to be used, for the aforementioned reasons and because it was a familiar format used for electromechanical control panels.

After the 1870s " national romanticism ", as it is more usually called, became a familiar movement in the arts.

Among those familiar with his poetry, his identity became an open secret, but Scott persisted maintaining the façade, perhaps because he thought his old-fashioned father would disapprove of his engaging in such a trivial pursuit as novel writing.

England had close links with India at the time when Wicca first became public in England, so this usage could well have been familiar to English speakers with a knowledge of Far Eastern religions.

As Postgate wholly voiced many of the productions, including the WereBear story tapes, his distinctive voice became familiar to generations of children.

I saw Little Billy rise and fire almost point blank and an Indian's face became shattered flesh and bone.

His face took on a sudden pallor, became beaded with sweat, and he seemed to have trouble with his breathing.

In the face of a clear judgment from archaeology, therefore, it became impossible for a time for scholars to re-adopt the `` shore settled by '' theory.

The track " Baby Baby " ( written for Grant's newborn daughter, Millie, whose " six-week-old face was my inspiration ,") became a pop hit ( hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 ), and Grant was established as a name in the mainstream music world.

Starting in 1969, Bardot's features became the official face of Marianne ( who had previously been anonymous ) to represent the liberty of France.

Finally, trucking-company executive Jerry McMorris became head of the ownership group and served as the initial public face of management.

In 2007, she became both CoverGirl's newest model and spokeswoman for the cosmetic and the face for Gucci's newest jewelry line.

At midnight on 5 November, Thomas ' breathing became more difficult and his face turned blue.

From the 1950s onwards London became home to a large number of immigrants, largely from Commonwealth countries such as Jamaica, India, Bangladesh Pakistan, which dramatically changed the face of London, turning it into one of the most diverse cities in Europe.

After 1940, Hitler made few public appearances, and even his broadcasts became less frequent, so Goebbels increasingly became the face and the voice of the Nazi regime for the German people.

This weakness became even more evident when the Lombards had to face the increasing power of the Franks.

Once a break in the lines was exploited, the cavalry became instrumental to victory, causing further breakage in the lines and wreaking havoc amongst the infantrymen, as it is much easier to kill a man from the top of a horse than to stand on the ground and face a half-ton destrier ( large warhorse ) carrying an armed knight.

As successful English settlement of North America began to take place in 1607 in the face of the hostile intentions of the powerful Spanish, and of the native populations, it became immediately necessary to raise militia amongst the settlers.

In 1049, Leo IX became pope, at last a pope with the character to face the papacy's problems.

They became the " voice ", the “ face ” and the " image " of the party and ministry.

In the Near eastern myth of the primitive agricultural societies, every year the fertility goddess bore the " god of the new year ", who then became her lover, and died immediately in order to be reborn and face the same destiny.

His wife, Queen Soraya Tarzi, became the face of Amanullah Khan's reforms in regard to women.

He became good friends with Harry Kim from the start and at times displayed protectiveness in the face of Harry's customary naiveté.

Gould also became a noted public face of science, often appearing on television.

As the ailing, elderly al-Bakr became unable to execute his duties, Saddam took on an increasingly prominent role as the face of the government both internally and externally.

This action created the situation whereby the U. S. dollar became the sole backing of currencies and a reserve currency for the member states of the Bretton Woods system, leading the system to collapse in the face of increasing financial strain in that same year.

One such article was from the Daily Express, in which the interviewer noted " a lightening change came over her face ", which was the first public mention of the rapid changes in mood that became characteristic of her.

Isis protected and raised Horus until he was old enough to face Set, and subsequently, became the pharaoh of Egypt.

Baird went downstairs and fetched an office worker, 20-year-old William Edward Taynton, to see what a human face would look like, and Taynton became the first person to be televised in a full tonal range.